Separable button.



I. GAUSE.

SEPARABLE BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 26. 914.

1,149,124. PatentedAug. 3, 1915.

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' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that'I, ISAACi'GA USE, a citizen of the United States, residing at National Soldiers Home, inthe county ofElizabeth to improve the form ofthe latch so'that when engaged with the eye of the post it clamps the latter to prevent a movement of;

the latchwhich would permit its tongue to disengage 'said'eye,vand when purposely displaced from thehollow head. HThis and ing the separable button in the manner hereinafter described and as shown inthe accom panying drawings wherein:

' Figure 1 is a sectional view through all parts of 'the button assembled; Figs. 2, '3, 4"

and'5 are perspective details of the parts of the hollow head or female member;Figs.. 6, 7 "and =8 are perspective details of different forms of the. male: member including the solid head; and Fig.9 is an enlarged plan view of the latch. J I

While the detail construction of-the parts of this separable'bu'tton is not important, excepting as they co-act with the improved latch described at length below, Ihave herewith illustrated what may be considered a practical construction of each although I do not wish to be limited 1 in this respect: I haveshown the female member *with a hollow head 'becauseit must have a transverse chamber in which the latch reciprocates, the chamber connecting with a :hollow sleeve into which is passed'the post of the male member; and I havedescribedthe latter as including a solid head carried by' the outer end of said post, because this head does not have to behollow; I have illustrated said heads as of diiferent'size'as they will prob ably be constructed when thedevice is used for a cufi" button or. in some formsof' collar buttons, but the size of parts and their ma terials and ornamentation are matters of no importance, and it is quiteobvious that the button may beoused wherever it is desired.

The hollow head comprises an outer plate i Specification of Letters Patent.

this separable button Patented Aug. 3, 1915.

I Applicatibn filedMarch 26, 1915. Serial No. 17,236.

1 having an annular inturned flange 2 notched at one side as at 3 an inner plate 4; having a peripheral flange 5 capable ofnbeing snapped into engagement with said flange 2 and itself notched at 6 to register with thenotch 8, the plate 4, being slotted as: at 7-; and a washer 80f asize to stand be tween these plates and having a central slot 9. v

- In Fig.vv 5, is shown a tubular sleeve 10 notched out transversely at its outer end at 11 to produce two side tongues 12. These various parts'are shown assembled in Fig. 1, the body of the sleeve 10 being passed through the slot 7- in the inner plate 4, its tongues 12 curled over tongues .13 which may'well be formed attheends of the slot '9,

and its notch standing in alinement with the two notches 6 and 3 of the outerand inner plates, whlch notches are caused to register with each other whentheflanges 2 and5 of theseplates are snapped into engagement with each other The washermay well be soldered or otherwise secured as at 14 to the inner face of the outer plate. -The parts thus fa r described constitute one member of a with the exception of the latch. i V Y The other member is variously shown in Figs. 6, 7 and 8. It comprises a base plate 20 and apost 21 rising therefrom and having an eye 22through its outer/end. This eye may.- easily be formed if this post is of wire as seen in Fig. 6, which case the ends of the wire will be bent out and secured as by soldering at 23 to. the inner face. of the plate 20 ;the same description will apply if the postris made of strap metal as indicated in' Fig. 7:; or the post may be a solid'projection25 secured at its base to or extending integrally from the plate 20 as seen in Fig. 8, and pierced near its outer end with a transverse eye 26. In this era similar'ma'nner is constructed the male member of the separable button. I

' Thelatchbest seen in Fig. 9 is by prefer-i ence made of a singlepiece of spring wire.

Beginning at the'center of its length, it is bent on itself as at 30, carried then outward in twoparallelcontiguous members constituting .a tongue 31,;said members then looped or bentaway from each other as, at 32, and carried along past the sides of the tongue in two jaws 33 which are somewhat longer than the tongue itself. At their in- 'ner ends these-"jaws are bent back upon 3 1 4. In a separable button, the combination with a male member having a post provided near its outer end with a transverse eye; of a female member including a hollow head having a slot in its inner plate and a notch in its edge opposite one side of the slot, and a latch slidably mounted Within said head and consisting of a spring wire bent into a tongue adapted to be projected through said eye, looped outward from said tongue and bent into jaws extending alongside and beyond the tongue and adapted normally to grip the post, then carried back outside said jaws and formed into shoulders resting on said loops, and then carried farther outward in arms projecting through said notch and normally contacting with its ends.

5. In a separable button, the combination with a male member having a post provided near its outer end with a transverse eye; of a female member including a hollow head having a slot in its inner plate and a notch in its edge opposite one side of the slot, and a latch slidably mounted within said head and consisting of a spring wire bent into a tongue adapted to be projected through said eye, looped outward from said tongue and bent into jaws extending alongside and beyond the tongue and adapted normally to grip the post, then carried back outside said jaws and formed into shoulders resting on said loops and Wider than the notch, then Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Gommissionen of Patents,

continued in parallel arms extending out said notch and normally contacting with its ends, and finally formed into heads on the exterior of said hollow button head.

6; In a separable button, the combination with the male member including a head, and a post rising therefrom and having a transverse eye near its outer end; of the female member including a'hollow head comprising outer and inner plates connected around their peripheries and having a notch in the edge, and a washer between said plates, the inner plate and Washer having registering slots, a tubular sleeve having its inner end passing through said slots and provided with tongues engaging said washer and its body notched out between said tongues on a line with the peripheral notch in the head; and a latch slidably mounted within said hollow head and including a tongue adapted to be projected through the notch in the sleeve and the eye in the male member,

spring jaws on opposite sides ofsaid tongue,

and arms projecting out of said peripheral notch, for the purpose set forth. 7

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ISAAC Gauss.

Witnesses: WILLIAM L. COGHILL, JOSEPH OSBORN.

Washington, D. 0. 

